Amor Jesu dulcissime (Giacomo Benincasa)

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  • (Posted 2019-10-25)  CPDL #55731:     
Editor: Burkard Rosenberger (submitted 2023-09-24).   Score information: A4, 10 pages, 1002 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC SA
Edition notes: Edition Santini.

General Information

Title: Amor Jesu dulcissime
Composer: Giacomo Benincasa
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: SacredMotet

Language: Latin
Instruments: Basso continuo

    Manuscript 1833
    Manuscript 1854 in SANT Hs 1218, no. 68
Description: Known from nineteenth century manuscript sources. One, copied by Johann Kaspar Aiblinger in 1833, claims its contents are from 1609.

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Original text and translations

Latin.png Latin text

Amor Jesu dulcissime, / quando cor nostrum visitas,
pellis mentis caliginem / et nos reples dulcedine.

Quam felix est quem satias, / consors paternae dexterae,
tu vere lumen patriae, / quod omnem sensum superat.

Splendor paternae gloriae, / incomprehensa bonitas,
amoris tui copiam / da nobis et praesentiam.